A Pack Of Lies

A Pack of Lies is a refreshing new offering from the house of Westland Publishers who in the past one year has given such best sellers like The Immortals of Meluha by Amish and Ammi by Saeed Zafri. A Pack of Lies  tells the story a poor little rich girl effectively abandoned, and now suddenly hungry. Ginny is an unlikely heroine and her story is filled with with sensual pleasures of food and the fabulous excitement of fame, that we almost miss what is, at heart, a novel about loneliness, a primer on lust, and most of all, an extraordinary window on the secrets of a young woman for whom resistance to gendered rules becomes a source of jeopardy, and yet, eventually, of salvation.

Urmila Deshpande is kbnown to readers of the blogosphere as one who writes regularly on food, cooking, women, relations and even sex. Her wide writing experience must have shaped her book. She writes her with an insouciance and almost savant honesty that will make you laugh, cry and think. Her prose is simple and yet vivid, her characters are complex, and she has an uncanny ability to familiarise us with them in one deft description. Both searingly poignant and heartbreakingly funny, one can read this book with eyes but feel it with one's heart